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Word: piecrusts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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...which to the layman's eye has seemed completed since it was occupied in 1935; the addition of 335 new employes to the Railroad Retirement Board; addition of 1,469 new workers to the Veterans' Administration (the State Department got only 35 additional employes). Sniffing such apparent piecrust, citizens could well ask: Where is the sacrifice? The broad outlines of the Budget were simple, partly because the size of the figures made them incomprehensible. In the current fiscal year, ending June 30, 1941, the President was trying to spend $13,202,370,970; would try to spend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Up the Roller Coaster | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

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